SUCKER

sucker

Noun

  1. A person or thing that sucks.
  2. An organ or body part that does the sucking.
  3. An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
  4. A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollypop.
  5. An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
  6. A suction cup.
  7. A suckling animal.
  8. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
  9. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
  10. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
  11. A parasite; a sponger.
  12. A hard drinker; a soaker.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. One who is easily fooled, or gulled.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. (slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".

Verb

  1. To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
    to sucker maize

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
    The salesman suckered him into signing an expensive maintenance contract.


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